Super Smash Bros. Thread

[OBJECTION MAN]

More cut content, joy. It seems every game is getting censored or cutting stuff lately.

Bah.

[Satoryu]

I'm not sure if you guys knew this, but it seems that Tharja has been entirely removed from the game.

Was that from the recent patch? That's odd. If that happened for the overseas versions I'd kinda understand, but in Japan as well? Who in Japan complains about things like her?

Or maybe she'll become playable now. [/sarcasm]

[Hypershell]

Tharja isn't exactly high on my list of beloved Awakening characters, but she seems to just habitually get the raw deal when it comes to censorship.  ...maybe there was something hidden in her trophy that they didn't want people see (something like Daisy's third eye in Melee?).  I dunno.  Tharja's butt kind of has a reputation to it in itself after the Summer Scramble DLC.

[Police Girl]

Clearly they didn't have enough curtain to cover her ass this time around.

[Mirby]

I'm trying to remember when Tharja was known to be in the game.

I honestly can't remember. Was it a daily pic or something?

[Sakura Leic]

I think Vixy found a image dump of some leak and it had a lot of this Tharja person as a trophy.

[Hypershell]

Yeah, her trophy image surfaced in one of the leaks, IIRC.  I don't think Tharja made it into the daily pics.

EDITS: Found it.

http://imgur.com/a/PzeCw
dat Tharja~

She has a few fairly dignified screens a quarter to a third of the way down, and the obligatory buttshot fourth from the bottom.

[Mirby]

Ah I see.

Well I didn't even know there was going to be a Tharja trophy and I never really liked her anyways so meh

It's just a trophy anyways, not like she was a cut AT or something.

[Protoman Blues]

I laughed! 

[Sakura Leic]

Thank you Samus.

[Fxeni]

Hah, not too bad!

[Phi]

I laughed! 

The facial expressions really complete this.

Can't stop laughing at Dedede's face and posture.

[Sakura Leic]

In a similar vein of why the Ice Climbers got cut here's why it would be so difficult to bring the likes of Mewtwo and Roy back, and it honestly makes sense.

http://www.gamnesia.com/news/sakurai-says-bringing-characters-back-from-melee-is-hard#.VCBtG4zn_-w

[Protoman Blues]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4SalDG__nY#t=13

The man's yell at 0:10....OMG....I can't stop laughing...

LITERALLY IN TEARS!!

[Sakura Leic]

It's it's like he tried to make a warcry but ran out of breath before he started.

[ViperAcidZX]

I kind of want to get a Wii U. I guess I'm weird in that I have no desire to buy a PS4 or a Xbox One, but I want a Wii U. I guess my mentality is that most of the games that come out for PS4 or Xbox, I can pick up on PC. The Wii U is the only next gen system with any interesting exclusives on it. It's the only place to get Mario, Smash Bros, and Zelda. And I really like the things I've heard about the next Zelda game.

I feel the same way since the first console from the previous generation I got was the original Wii because the games and exclusives appealed to me more than the PS3 or 360.

I laughed! 

Ha, poor Ridley.

[Phi]

Nintendo 3DS - Super Smash Bros. Trailer

Allllmost here

[Hypershell]

In a similar vein of why the Ice Climbers got cut here's why it would be so difficult to bring the likes of Mewtwo and Roy back, and it honestly makes sense.

http://www.gamnesia.com/news/sakurai-says-bringing-characters-back-from-melee-is-hard#.VCBtG4zn_-w

This surprises me if only for the fact that Gamecube and Wii are two of the most similar consoles Nintendo ever made, programming-wise.

Eh, difficulty does not equal impossible.

[OBJECTION MAN]

They did a new engine ground up for Brawl though. Think of it in terms of PC gaming. While Street Fighter IV and Skull Girls are both on the same programming architecture (Windows PC), you can't just copypasta Ryu into Skull Girls. They're programmed completely different.

Not putting him in because it was more work however is kind of weak. They're Nintendo, they have the bank to do it.

Cheap is exactly the word I use to describe this Smash Bros honestly. No elaborate adventure mode, FMV's, etc. They made this game on the cheap compared to Brawl's massive production values. Given Brawl's budget, which was a ground up new engine so every fighter had to be recreated, extensive story and adventure mode, crazy amount of characters, etc, you can start to understand how much of a budget title this was in comparison. The more I see of it, the more it is indeed underwhelming.

It DOES play better than Brawl, so I'll give it that. It also has For Glory mode, which is a huge plus. However, I still feel underwhelmed by the huge lack of the single player offerings, especially when compared to Brawl. It's really regressed back to N64's single player, but with even less honestly. Not even any bonus rounds that I saw.

[Police Girl]

Cheap is exactly the word I use to describe this Smash Bros honestly. No elaborate adventure mode, FMV's, etc.

Going to rip this part out of context. Sakurai already stated they took Adventure Mode out because he didn't like that people uploaded all the videos to youtube and spoiled it.

[Blue Valkyrie]

Brawl's adventure mode was kinda...eh though, way to long and tedious. Not really bothered it's gone.

[Sakura Leic]

There was just so many things in the Sub Space Emissary that was just not really fun, like Blue said it was long and tedious.  I wouldn't want that in a fighting game or a party game.

[Police Girl]

I liked Subspace Emissary.

[N-Mario]

Going to rip this part out of context. Sakurai already stated they took Adventure Mode out because he didn't like that people uploaded all the videos to youtube and spoiled it.

Really, Mr. Sakurai? Players are gonna spoil the game no matter what kind of content is in the game. It's the internet. Live with it.

[Soultrigger]

Really, Mr. Sakurai? Players are gonna spoil the game no matter what kind of content is in the game. It's the internet. Live with it.

Just to clarify, Sakurai doesn't mean "youtube spoils game cutscenes = I'm butthurt, no more cutscenes". What he's saying is that the cutscenes were tailored to be experienced by players actually playing the game, rather than passive viewers, because the cutscenes were meant to motivate players to go through SSE (which is otherwise extremely tedious and monotonous). Understand that cutscenes probably costed a significant portion of Brawl's budget, hence why they're devalued when they can simply all be watched on youtube for free.

You'll notice that Smash 4 actually embraces youtube: why do you think we have youtube-tailored character reveals?